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Rebels

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Glossary of Organizations, Cities and Towns

Glossary of Key Figures

Chronology of Significant Events

Introduction

1: ‘The Time of Revolution Has Started’

Figure 1 Map of Kurdistan

Precursors of the PKK

Emergence of the Modern Kurdish National Movement

The Catalyst of Racist Provocation

2: PKK Origins and Ideological Formation

From Disorientation to Refounding

The PKK’s Organization and Membership

3: Early Years of Struggle

Towards Armed Struggle

Armed Struggle Unfolds

The PKK in Europe

4: From Ceasefire to All-Out War

The Unilateral Ceasefire Ends

The 2009 ‘Kurdish Opening’

2010: Serok Abandons Rapprochement with Turkey

Turkey Responds by Bombing PKK Bases in Iraqi Kurdistan

The Kurdish Diaspora’s Role

Breaking the Deadly Pattern?

5: The Move Towards Peace

31 December 2012: Peace Negotiations Announced

Turkish Responses to the Turkish/Kurdish Peace Process

Peace: Reality or Illusion?

6: Democratic Confederalism and the PKK’s Feminist Transformation

From Independent Kurdistan to ‘Democratic Confederalism’

Transformation into an Autonomist Movement of Democratic Confederalism

Repression of the KCK

The PKK and Women

The PKK’s Feminist Transformation

PKK Women’s Organizations

A Radical Transformation

7: Coming Down from the Mountains

From Terrorists to Legitimate Rebels?

Economic Factors

A ‘Turkish Spring’?

Return to Armed Conflict?

References

Index

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